Guo Sihong piano
Piano recital featuring the 15-year-old pianist Guo Sihong
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 11 in B flat major, Op. 22
I. Allegro con brio
II. Adagio con molta espressione
III. Minuet
IV. Rondo: Allegretto
Sergei Prokofiev
Etude No. 1 in D minor, Op. 2
Toccata in D minor, Op. 11
Sergei Rachmaninov
Étude-Tableau No. 7, Op. 33
- Break -
Wang Lisan
"Lan Huahua"
Franz Liszt
Waltz from Gounod’s opera *Faust*, p. 407
Rhapsodie espagnole, S. 254
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Guo Sihong was born in Shenzhen in February 2011 and began playing the piano at the age of four. He has been attending the Shenzhen Arts School since 2020, where he studies under Chen Lan, the head of the piano department. He is currently in Year 9.
His honours include a second prize at an international Clara Schumann Piano Competition in Belgium (2022), a gold medal at the China final of the 25th. Santa Cecilia International Piano Competition in the Youth Group B, as well as fifth place in the professional children’s group of the Shenzhen Piano Open (2023). In 2024, he competed in the Asia Future Stars Music Festival in Tokyo with the Nihonbashi Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Kenichi Shimura and performed the third movement of Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto; in the same year, he gave a concert at a music festival in Cambridge.
In November 2025, Guo Sihong received an award at the 12th. Steinway Youth Piano Competition the Special Prize for the South China region in the Professional Group A. At the Singapore International Youth Piano Competition He also won first prizes in three repertoire categories with works by Rachmaninoff, Beethoven and Chopin. In February 2026, he reached the Fujairah International Piano Competition in the United Arab Emirates, he came fifth in Group C and was awarded the jury prize for the best performance of a Baroque work. In July 2026, he won first prize in the professional youth category of the 15th Shenzhen Piano Open.
Organised by Meta Management GmbH. Free admission, free seating. Doors open from 6.30 pm. Free bookings can be made via the Vienna International Foundation for Youth Art Development (VIYAF), for the attention of Mr Peng Ruan, by email to office@viyaf.org or by telephone on +43 699 1921 0336 possible.
